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Till'. GUIDE TO NATURE 



in these countries and tlic only thing is 

 glorious nature as God there made it. 

 The scenery of the magnificent Cordil- 

 leras is superb, one chain towering above 

 another and forming between them great 

 depressions and valleys some cultivated 

 and fertile, other- consisting of impene- 

 trable forests waiting for a more pro- 

 gressive race to utilize them. 



Great rivers, some of them thousands 



horseback or on muleback and penetrates 

 into the wild forests of the Cordilleras, 

 magnificent vistas will spread before him. 

 Places of vantage will be found Mattered 

 here and there on some high ridge and 

 overlooking the country as far as the 

 human eye can reach. The verdant 

 ridges of the Cordilleras will then appear 

 in the distance like the billows of a 

 stormy sea, with here and there the 



CUT CATTLEYA FLOWERS. 



riaced in shallow tanks over which wire netting has been stretched, permitting the stems of the flowers to 



absorb the water while the flowers themselves are kept out by the netting. 



of miles long, flow through these regions. 

 and if the traveller embarks on a raft 

 built especially for his purpose and floats 

 down some of these streams, he will have 

 an experience that will long linger in his 

 memory. As he traverses the country on 



snowy cap of a volcano rising above the 

 rest. Add to this the river courses which 

 appear like blue ribbons winding their 

 way through the verdure, and you have 

 a panorama such as may be seen nowhere 

 else in the world. 



